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GWP’s VISION is a water secure world. Our MISSION is to advance governance and management of water resources for sustainable and equitable development.

OUR UNIQUE VALUE: GWP mobilises action on the global water crisis through a unique combination of social capital, shared values, credibility within the global water community, bottom-up orientation, and expertise. A network of networks, we ensure the ‘voices of water’ can inﬂuence local, national, regional, and global development priorities. We are committed to our role as a neutral convener and respected for our focus on inclusiveness and sustainability.

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GWP creates and communicates information about integrated water resources management which contributes to improved water governance and, ultimately, water security.

Together with our Partners, we provide knowledge resources and capacity building activities for solving water problems.

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Institutional Partners are the basis of GWP's multi-stakeholder partnership. A strong, diverse partnership can bring about the changes needed to achieve a water secure world. In this section, learn about the benefits of being a Partner and meet a few who already are. We invite like-minded organisations to join us!

GWP Regions

This is where you can find links to the websites of our Regional Water Partnerships (RWPs). RWPs are closest to the countries where we work. They share knowledge and learning across national boundaries and are expected to have an open, inclusive, and gender-sensitive policies for bringing together as wide a group of stakeholders as possible to solve water problems.

Caribbean South America

12/21/2010

Raising Awareness Among Media

Media is often a critical link between policymakers and the public. The media focus on environmental issues is increasing, especially in light of the global interest in climate change. This is why GWP regularly organizes awareness-raising workshops for journalists. GWP South America and GWP Caribbean recently organised workshops as a first step to creating journalist networks for knowledge sharing in water resources management.

GWP Peru organized three courses from different geographical regions of Peru about the links between the hydrological cycle, climate change, glacier melting and IWRM in the Andes-Amazon area. The workshops were held in:

- the Andean region, in the city of Cusco, organized by the Centro Guamán Poma de Ayala (October 22).
- the Amazon region, in the city of Iquitos, organized by the Research Institute of the Peruvian Amazon - (October 29).
- the coastal region, in the city of Piura, organized by the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (December 2).

In total 75 media workers were trained and several of them has expressed interest in the GWP South America journalistic network. An important result of the workshop in Piura was the commitment of the representative of the newspaper “El Tiempo” to organise a workshop on IWRM for journalists which is expected to reach a much larger number of media professionals.

In December, GWP Caribbean partnered with the Caribbean Broadcasting Union to host its first regional media workshop on Integrated Water Resources Management which took place in Barbados. Journalists from various Caribbean countries were invited to participate in the two day training course.

The workshop generated some media coverage:

www.barbadosadvocate.com

www.jamaicaobserver.com

Page last edited: 12/21/2010